| Show savory dish of japan not so well known among tho the dentals as soy sauce but of equal merit ae a an appetizer Is ite its uso use lu iv universal in japan it serves the same purpose that horseradish coca on occidental tables but ie Is less acrid my own introduction to was unique I 1 count among my most pleas ant experiences in this sunrise land my meeting with gumto yano novelist and diplomat and not the const item in ray my debt of gratitude to him Is that he taught me to appreciate raw fish and I 1 mr air yano has been the mi ambassador to china and other lands one night at the nippon club he led up to it delicate subject on the menu with much diplomacy he ile finally got my assent to the state ment that a cosmopolitan appetite Is one of the distinguishing marks of cultivated travel tren tr en he passed me raw fish I 1 confessed that I 1 was willing to be a stick in the mud or any other variety of eitt irlan rather than take place with the international elect by eating euch such a dish my host however was wits pain painfully tully Ins insistent latent finally adding that with raw flah they of course ate wa nov now I 1 did not have even a vague notion of at what thia thin might be out that raw proposition becote me it waa was comforting to know that at least it wa to bo be diluted with some thing I 1 conjured up an experience e in taking castor oil ambushed i under inder sherry and sarsaparilla which alle not a be boie crage rago one would gi g v to crave crae might have cave been worse I 1 figured out also hut that with my gaucheries gau cherle with climp chov sticks I 1 might manage without exciting suspicion to drop the fish before the fata fatal moment and eat at only the mysterious 1 but whether through cowa cowardice adice or clarage I 1 cannot eay say fish and relish made quick and simultaneous journey to my reluctant palate and in that never tobe to be forgotten instant there thero hashed into my consciousness the UL truth that in all my occidental years I 1 had been denied one of f the most savory dishes in the world charles lambs lamb a chinaman bad had jubilant delight over hia his first taste of roast pig but that Is a degraded passion compared with an anglo saxons initial ecstasy over an oriental morsel of raw mamilu garnished with the appetizing roots of estrema wa all honor to triumphant agricultural japan and may this far eastern member of the mustard family take deep root and spread and flourish in my native land I magazine |
